The image above is an animated GIF, which is older than most people on the internet. We surfed the World Wide Web in early years, and remember Jack Hammering Road Workers, who were adjacent to the permanent announcement that various sites, including ourselves, were “under construction.” What was fascinating back then, but on the Internet today it looks incredibly primitive compared to what you can see on the Internet today, where high-resolution feature films are streamed instantly. But technically speaking, you can track everything to what this particular animated GIF is drawing. Phenakistiscope.
Invented simultaneously independently by Belgian physicists in the second half of 1832. Joseph Plateau And for the first time in the history of technology, Simon Stampfer, a professor of geometry in Austria, was a simple wheel-shaped device that can be spun in a mirror and creates the illusion of a painting that moves smoothly when spun in a mirror. Phenaxy Sticks“deceive”, and ops“eye.”
When it was seen as commercial novelty, it was also sold under names such as Phantasm Scope and Fantasm Scope. This promised buyers to get a glimpse into horseback, twirl-young dancers, bows, frog hopping, flying ghouls and even primeval spiritual abstract patterns. This Wikipedia Gallery.
Ultimately, according to Public Domain Review, Phenakistiscope was “supplied by popular imaginations, first by a similar Zoetrope, and by the film itself, via Eadwear Muybridge’s Zoopraxisscope (projected animation).”. “Previously featured in open culture, Muybridge performed pioneer motion photography work in the 187s, now considered the film’s predecessor. Understanding what he was doing is an important part of understanding the emergence of films as we know it. But the most beneficial experience from the beginning is to create your own phenaxy scope. George Eastman Museum and YouTube Artist Megan Scott. The finished product may not have long held anyone’s attention in the Netflix era, but if Phenakistoscope had come first then it would never have arrived in the Netflix era.
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Based in Seoul Colin marshall Write and broadcasting stationTS about cities, languages, and culture. His projects include the Substack Newsletter Books about cities And the book The Stateless City: Walking through 21st century Los Angeles. Follow him on social networks previously known as Twitter @colinmarshall.
Source: Open Culture – www.openculture.com
